Consistently among my celebrity style list-toppers is Blake Lively (who has been like, especially killing it on the carpet as of late, but that's for another day). I was excited when I heard that Lively was to be launching a new company. Then I sort of forgot all about it and went on living my life since, you know, Blake Lively and I don't know each other. Later, I stumbled across a headline about "Preserve." Realizing I ...

Thursday, ahoy! Hopefully this first week of September has been treating you like little newborn lambs. Either way, I've got some interiors therapy coming your way so c/o of After Design, so there's that. Gray skies moved in right on cue in Seattle at the beginning of this week, then cut to blue and back again, a sure sign of the seasonal limbo we now find ourselves in. And oh! The other night there was this ...

Most people are sensible enough to figure out what time they need to leave their house in order to make it to their intended destination on time. Most people are late. The flaw in the plan is that having only one time stamp in mind--and the final one at that--does little to help you manage all the minutes that precede it. In other words, knowing what time you need to be out the door doesn't ...

So you're all stocked up for back to school. You've gotten yourself or your young ones all the 3-ring binders, college-ruled notebooks, neon sharpies and trendy lunch bags your cart could carry (kidding, "carts" are just a different screen on Amazon whose capacity is limitless). You or your people are going to rock it in the classroom this year. I've got a question for you though, you school supplies junky you; how's your home going ...

There's a certain sense of melancholy that abounds this time of year, as if we're collectively overcome with mourning. But mourning what, exactly? It can't merely be the warmer temperatures and longer days; most of us are too well-versed in seasonal climates to have such an adverse reaction to a regular and anticipated shift as this. No, it's something more than the weather. There is the sense that with the end of summer comes the ...